How we built a real iPhone device farm for iOS mobile testing
Staff Product Engineering Lead Jaden Lemmon reveals how QA Wolf built a physical iOS device farm to help customers reach 80%+ test coverage for their iOS mobile apps. Watch this webinar to go behind the scenes.
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How we built a real iPhone device farm for iOS mobile testing

When your app crashes, your users don’t wait for a fix—they delete it. Glance reports that 71% of users who experience two app crashes in their first week never return. That churn adds up. And with 87% of IT leaders naming mobile quality a top concern in the 2024 State of Mobile Application Quality Report, teams can’t afford to ship unstable iOS code.

iOS simulators miss device-specific failures. Popular device clouds are slow, expensive, and hard to manage. Neither gives your team a way to run fast, repeatable tests on real hardware, especially not at the pace continuous deployment demands.

That’s why we designed a fully automated iOS testing infrastructure from scratch. We use real iPhones in a secure rack environment to provide parallelized test execution and complete visibility into results. No flake retries, no emulator guesswork, or third-party overhead. Just real-device test runs wired into your CI.

In this webinar, host Caleb Masters joins Staff Product Engineering Lead Jaden Lemmon to explain how we built a physical iOS device farm capable of reaching 80%+ test coverage for mobile-first customers.

Watch this presentation to learn:

  • Why simulators and third-party device farms fall short for end-to-end iOS mobile testing.
  • How we built a real-device infrastructure optimized for test speed and reliability.
  • What it took to adapt QA Wolf's automated testing solution for iOS


See how we’ve stabilized mobile releases for customers without sacrificing quality coverage or speed.

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